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    Dessert Sauce Recipes

    Sauces and spreads can take a plated dessert from boring to amazing. Here's a roundup of the best recipes for dessert sauces like salted caramel sauce

    • Rubbing lemon zest into granulated sugar in a bowl to make lemon sugar.
      How to Make Lemon Sugar
    • Homemade maple butter
      How to Make Homemade Maple Butter
    • Chocolate peanut butter spread on white bread, with bite taken out. Set on a speckled ceramic plate with a beige linen napkin and a bowl of the spread with wooden knife.
      How to make nutella without hazelnuts
    • A saucepan of homemade crème anglaise (custard sauce) that is flavoured with vanilla bean paste.
      How To Make Crème Anglaise
    • sweet flavoured butters
      Sweet compound butters
    • Homemade salted caramel sauce in a jar with a little pinching bowl of sea salt and a ceramic plate with a spoon with salted caramel on it
      How to make salted caramel sauce
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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